{"id":3637,"date":"2022-05-20T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2024-03-10T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:26:49","slug":"dorothy-moore-blues-trail-marker-unveiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/2022\/05\/20\/dorothy-moore-blues-trail-marker-unveiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Moore Blues Trail Marker Unveiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/files\/2022\/05\/Dorothy-Moore-flyer.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/files\/2022\/05\/Dorothy-Moore-flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/files\/2022\/05\/Dorothy-Moore-flyer.png 600w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/files\/2022\/05\/Dorothy-Moore-flyer-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\">Dorothy Moore was offered a recording contract after consistently winning the Wednesday night talent contests at the Alamo Theatre while in junior high. In 1966, she recorded an album as the lead singer of the vocal group the Poppies, which she had joined while she was a student at Jackson State. Moore later sang background vocals for Malaco Records in Jackson and was soon recording there as a featured artist. In 1976, her record \u201cMisty Blue\u201d was a huge hit and established Malaco as a major player in the soul and blues field. Her other hits included \u201cFunny How Time Slips Away,\u201d \u201cI Believe You,\u201d and \u201cWith Pen In Hand.\u201d She later formed her own label, Farish Street Records, and her honors include a 1996 Governor\u2019s Award For Excellence in the Arts.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;color: #000000\">Join us as we celebrate the life and musical career of Jackson&#8217;s own Dorothy Moore with a Mississippi Blues Trail Marker unveiling ceremony at\u00a0<b>11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 25, at the FD Hall Music Center<\/b>\u00a0on the campus of Jackson State University. A reception and musical event will follow the unveiling.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Moore was offered a recording contract after consistently winning the Wednesday night talent contests at the Alamo Theatre while in junior high. In 1966, she recorded an album as the lead singer of the vocal group the Poppies, which she had joined while she was a student at Jackson State. Moore later sang background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}